Hello. I signed up a while ago but just lurked ever since.I'm half-irish, half- English, and because I didn't listen to my teachers at school I now find myself in the desert working on construction projects.Watches: I'm mainly interested in what are usually classed as 'affordables'. My first ever watch was a hand-wind Timex, bought by my grandma when I was 11. I still have it. My latest purchase was a Zeno Bubbleback (32mm diameter), before that a Casio Gulfmaster, and before that I forget but I think it was a Seiko SARB.I own about 15 watches (I can't be bothered to get off the chair and count them): several Seiko and Zeno, a Nomos, couple of Casio digitals, a Laco, Citizen, Chr Ward, Rado, Longines and Hamilton.

Current favourite is the Zeno Navy Diver, this one has a brushed case rather than the usual highly-polished one:

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"When a watchmaker puts an eyeglass into his eye to examine something that another watchmaker has made, he's not looking for an opportunity to praise that man, he's looking for imperfections." George Daniels

Welcome to the forum. Nice collection of watches and love the Zeno. I think we have one in the masthead which is my personal watch. at one timeI had the watch you are wearing in yellow. Eddie thought of me when he received it several years ago so he let me know about it. Gald he chose not to sell his forum to another company.

Which half is which? I think the lower half is English - my legs move slowly but methodically and get me where I want to go in the end, and my top half is Irish - my brain tries to keep me on track most of the time, but is easily distracted by Guinness and ideas that seemed like a good idea at the time, but weren't really.

koimaster wrote:Welcome to the forum. Nice collection of watches and love the Zeno. I think we have one in the masthead which is my personal watch. at one timeI had the watch you are wearing in yellow. Eddie thought of me when he received it several years ago so he let me know about it. Gald he chose not to sell his forum to another company.

I had one of those too - but got it from James at Time-Design (he's on Eddie's forum quite a bit).That's when I found out that I don't actually like sword hands and sold it on. Nice watch though.

I had several Zeno's a few years ago, down to two now, but planning to get one of their Chronographs at Christmas if I can persuade Mrs Santa to agree to it.